31-year-old Marissa Alexander from Jacksonville received a 20-year sentence for firing a shot at her husband in what she claims was self-defense and in accordance with the Stand Your Ground law. The court decided that she was "angry" and not in fear of her life when she fired a warning shot at...

31-year-old Marissa Alexander from Jacksonville received a 20-year sentence for firing a shot at her husband in what she claims was self-defense and in accordance with the Stand Your Ground law. The court decided that she was "angry" and not in fear of her life when she fired a warning shot at... (Bob Self, Bob Self/Staff)

He also took part in a panel Thursday titled "Stand Your Ground Law: Where Do We Go From Here?" with state Rep. Alan Williams, D-Tallahasee, state attorney Willie Meggs and public defender Nancy Daniels.

Martin called for a repeal while other panelists suggested changes in the verbiage of the law, the news organization said.

TALLAHASSEE -- Lawmakers advanced changes to Florida's controversial "stand your ground" law Tuesday in the wake of the George Zimmerman trial and a summer of protests after his acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.

Former CIA Director David Petraeus, whose once-bright political future was all but destroyed over an affair with his biographer, has agreed to plead guilty to charges he shared classified material with her for her book.

Sex offender David Cuevas, according to authorities, amassed an array of weapons and planned to attack a woman he was obsessed with before he was killed Thursday in a gun battle with Lakeland police last week.

A Justice Department investigation will allege sweeping patterns of discrimination within the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department and at the municipal jail and court, a law enforcement official familiar with the report said Tuesday.

OCALA — Lake County school Superintendent Susan Moxley testified in federal court today that she rejected a gay-straight alliance club at a Leesburg middle school in 2013 because she received a vague application about the club's purpose.

A parent of a fifth grader at Brookshire Elementary School in Winter Park was initially told she could not pick up her daughter, who was opting out of the state's new writing test, according to another parent who witnessed the incident this morning. That other parent said she called police.